Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.